i won 500,000 pounds

[hazel]

A new way of cheating !

How is that new? What you quote is a standard "Nigerian". I've had dozens of those.

Actually it's not the scams that bother me so much, but I have suddenly received a deluge of sex ads, most of them promising to increase the size of my penis. Which is worrying because I don't have one. Whatdid I ever do to deserve this?

[oz]

Actually it's not the scams that bother me so much, but I have suddenly received a deluge of sex ads, most of them promising to increase the size of my penis. Which is worrying because I don't have one. Whatdid I ever do to deserve this?

lol... now that's funny!

I get those all the time, too, but there's no way I'd ever take any of that stuff.

[devils casper]

yeah ! that's really funny.
i got that kinda email first time.

[apoorv_khurasia]

My email (the university ID) is full of such messages from Viagra to home loans. The best bet we had was to ban messages sent to various user groups from outside of the domain but from what it looks like these people are indeed very hard to beat.

[Cabhan]

Yeah, GMail's spam filter is pretty incredible.

My favorite part about these e-mails is the absolutely atrocious English that they use. I'll give a bit of flexibility to the guys who admit to being from Africa (though English isn't exactly unheard of there), but I get e-mails (in another account) from people from the UK just dying to give their money away. I mean, if I get one of these e-mails that contained proper grammar, I might actually believe it. Well, had I entered the UK lottery, I might believe it .

But people _do_ fall for these. I remember reading somewhere about these people who actually travel to Africa to meet with the "Nigerian investor / Minister of Commerce" and get either killed or ransomed back.

Fun stuff.

[Lakshmipathi]

I got this new one today...
Hi, dear

We are two different people who live into different countries,but we live into one Earth. And we have all chances to meet each other. You can buy a ticket to Ukraine and to fly to me, if you want.
I am woman who wants to love and to take care of her soul mate.
I will be devoted wife and mother.
You can't imagine how my heart misses tender feelings, romantic compliments.
I can give everything in order to meet my love.
You can take my heart here newmail

All the best

El
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Does any 1 got ticket for Ukraine

[Freston]

Does any 1 got ticket for Ukraine

I'd drive you there, we'd be there before Sunday if we take turns and drive through the night. But alas, I have to be home because I've won $ 1,5 mln and $ 5 mln in the same lottery as the OP.

Oh sigh, I'd easily trade all this money for a girl that loves me and wants to be my soul mate. So..... Wanna trade?


EDIT: Oh! You are the OP... In that case, ask if she's got a sister. We leave in 30 minutes...

[Lakshmipathi]

.. In that case, ask if she's got a sister. We leave in 30 minutes...

hi , i asked her...she got no sisters, only a brother

[Oxygen]

Could you follow through with their scam until they give information to send money to then use things like that to track them?

[Freston]

Well, the OP did mention a friend of his who went into this a bit. They asked for money, so they must have send a bank account number. That could potentially lead to personal information. Depending on the laws in your country, there are ways of sending money and pull it right back. No risk in loosing your money. That would give you some of their details on your *whatchacallid* bank note(?).

But I guess these are intelligent people making money of those who are not, or who are naive at least. You only need to catch one to make it worthwhile.

It would be cool: The Spammed Ones Strike Back.

But I think they have covered all their tracks. I really don't think there is much to gain from this except the intellectual excercize See if you can find holes in their sceme.